Foxhole Symphony
Foxhole Symphony
Follow Me: Integrating Faith into Everyday Life
Can comfort be a spiritual stumbling block? As we get older, it's easy to slow down and settle into patterns that prioritize ease over growth. Join us in this episode of Foxhole Symphony as we challenge ourselves and our listeners to examine what it truly means to follow Jesus daily, sharing personal stories from the golf course and the football field that highlight how our physical and spiritual journeys often mirror each other. We explore the idea that we might be too comfortable in our faith, especially when compared to the fervor with which we follow social media influencers and our own appetites.
In our discussion, we shift towards the idea of living a life where faith is not a separate compartment but integrated into every moment. Drawing inspiration from John 12:26, we talk about the importance of acknowledging God's presence in all our actions, thoughts, and words, and how this impacts our daily lives. We reflect on the teachings from Chris Bruno's book "Sage," emphasizing the pursuit of wisdom and the joy found in God's creation. This segment underscores the necessity of community and the pitfalls of moralism, successism, and individualism that we must avoid to stay true to our spiritual journey.
As the episode progresses, we delve into a lesson in nature, using the image of a perfectly shaped oak tree to discuss the beauty of surrendering to God's plans. We talk about the constant struggle between personal desires and spiritual priorities, and how putting God first provides structure and purpose. Ending on a hopeful note, we offer a prayer for healing and encourage listeners to engage with our community by sharing the podcast and providing feedback. Prepare to be inspired to embrace discomfort and live an authentic, faith-driven life.
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Speaker 2:In our foxhole. Men are equipped to build relationships that foster belonging, accountability and growth.
Speaker 1:Stop believing the lie that you can thrive in isolation and instead join us on the journey from broken to whole.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone. They call me the maestro and we are back in the foxhole where we actively pursue belonging, accountability and growth through authentic relationships. No masks, no agendas, just iron sharpening iron. Mark and Steve are back in the foxhole and they are talking about who they follow. You know, with technology today, that has a potential of being a very long list. It's time to open our ears, our minds and our favorite notes app. Let's get started.
Speaker 4:Hey, welcome back to Foxhole Symphony Podcast. I'm Sart here with my good friend Mark.
Speaker 1:Hey bro, how are you?
Speaker 4:today. Good, I'm, good, I'm my tails wagging a little bit slower today, it's just a little bit slower.
Speaker 1:Well, you've got this important birthday staring you in the face and, yes, you know this multi day celebration.
Speaker 4:Yes, I'm tired, I'm tired, so yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm tired of having fun.
Speaker 4:I am, as I turn the corner, 50,. I'm like I don't know if I needed all this. I really just like an afternoon nap would have been perfect. That's good.
Speaker 1:That's good for me, right I'm good, I know, and isn't it great? I even do that. I'm not joking like golf about whole 14. I'm like okay.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, that's so funny. You say that Cause I, nick and I, are playing golf today, so we get. He did, yes, last night. He's like, hey, dad, let's get out, let's get out on the course. I and, and honestly, yes, right, like, get get out with your boy and play this beautiful course. So that's, that's what we're going to do today. Awesome, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, giants games. You know things are going. I'm not just not kidding, I'm I. You know how much I love football, but I'm sitting there at the end of the third quarter might be freezing, my took is off and I'm like enough, pillow, right, right. There's so many times in life. Sometimes people come to the house and I'm like two hours, three hours, having a blast. But yeah at hour four. I'm like OK.
Speaker 4:Well, hey, listen, you know what it's a? It's a great metaphor and segue into our topic of conversation today. To be honest, I mean it's just perfect, right, because we we get to a place where we like to be comfortable right In our younger years, we're a little bit more willing to take risks and be uncomfortable and we bounce back quicker, right, and I don't know, something happens. And we get to a point where we get a little closer to retirement and a little just slowing down. Talk to me a little closer to retirement and a little, you know, just slowing down.
Speaker 1:Talk to me.
Speaker 4:I'd like to be in my bed. I'd rather be, you know, at home with my pillow. Oh right, all those things.
Speaker 1:Oh good, I get it. And it also, just for a moment, makes me think. The fact that you're turning 50 actually makes me realize how much older I am than you. I don't think about that generally. I feel like we're peers and we are in so many ways, but I'm 65. You're 50 years old. That 15 really sticks out right now.
Speaker 4:And I'm just trying to catch up to you as fast as I run. I just can't seem to get there.
Speaker 1:Don't um bro this, this verse in John 12, 12, when he was talking to his disciples about leaving them and going to heaven and what was to come, and that you've seen me make that confused face which is what I wear very often, but that what his disciples felt and looked like when he started talking about leaving, like I've got to go, and the the John 12, 26, and I don't have it right in front of me, but it speaks to um that if you, my servants, follow me, they need to be where I am, because God will honor anyone who serves and follows me. Right, right, and I can't tell you exactly why, but as God would have it in my life, I thought of that and I said how am I doing that today? How does that, how does following God manifest itself in my life?
Speaker 4:What's that look?
Speaker 1:like, and I'm. I've only been on this for an hour in processing and praying, but I have a feeling I'm pretty comfortable. I've only been on this for an hour in processing and praying, but I have a feeling I'm pretty comfortable. I've gotten comfortable in this. Yeah, just yeah, like. See, see my badge, my Follow Jesus badge. You can see it right, it's right there. I pin it on my chest every morning and then I go live my life. So, look, let's talk about what it means to follow something else. Here's a great juxtaposition. Take God out of it. What else do you follow? Because don't you think of social media, right? I follow this group and I follow that, and I follow this writer, this reader, this actor, this movie, this genre, this IP, whatever. Think of something that you follow.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sure, follow people, I mean, you know, follow people, right. Follow other leaders, you know. Look for, I mean, in today's world of influencers, right, ooh, my goodness, you know everybody wants to be followed. You know I follow my own appetite, uh, not just my, you know, uh, physical appetite, but emotional appetite and, and you know, sexual appetite and psychological appetite. And you know whatever I hunger for, right, idols, um, following after, looking for, looking for, you know, whatever it is that you know might fill a void at any given moment of any day, um, so, yeah, um, that's, that's those are. There's a million things right and what?
Speaker 1:okay, so what do you do? So pick something you know, anything you like I mean um off the top of my head. I'm so enjoying watching different foods be made, like if you jump on YouTube or any place else like that, I see recipes. You know, I send them to you when the guy's making that Italian sandwich.
Speaker 1:Right oh yeah, right, and that's exactly how he talks. He goes hey, the sandwich, right. I got to go super sad and there he is, he's making this thing and I'm sitting there with my mouth watering going it's harmless, right? I don't think there's. There's no sin in it. I'm watching some guy make something I would eat 10 of like it's a big.
Speaker 4:It's a big gluttonous. It isn't like a 12 foot sub you know?
Speaker 1:oh, I wasn't say that. Did you see me hold my hands apart? But right, so he puts about seven pounds of cabal goal on the sandwich. But when I follow that, my heart I get. There's a passion. Right, there's a um. I don't um, I'm not the guy clicking. I think there's a button you can click and say, ah, I want to see all of his recipes. I don't do that. Sure, they're like little candy, they're the little surprises, little chocolate-covered mints on the pillow in my day.
Speaker 4:It's a distraction. It's a little distraction, right, it's a little sweet, but yeah, it's interesting. You're talking about food, because I was thinking about that too, and my wife's a nutrition health coach, and so you know we talk all the time about mindless eating. It's one of the biggest issues, you know, when it? When it comes to what we put in our mouths, right, we were unkind as Mark holds his hand, guilty as charged. Yeah, you know, as we go about our day, right, If it's there, I grab it, I pop it in my mouth. I don't even know, I did it, right until it's until it's over, and they still not even think about it. It's the mindlessness of our day, and it's not just food, it's whatever we consume, it's whatever. Whatever we look at, it's whatever we, it's an undisciplined life, and so that's what I think of, and you know. And then, on the other side of that is mindfulness. Now, it's a dirty word to some, you know it's like oh, wait a minute, okay, hang on. Like that's not a you know that's not a biblical principle.
Speaker 1:I agree, and I think if you take the ness off of that then it's not as icky, right, you're just being mindful, right, sure and focused. By the way, this just occurred to me, I can't believe it didn't before, but I proudly say I'm a follower of Jesus. Not often enough, but I do. Yet if someone said to me, is Sarge a follower or a leader, I'd say he's a leader, absolutely positively. We wear the. I wear I don't want to speak for you I wear my leadership badge, my front of the house badge, proudly.
Speaker 4:It's interesting. I have been interviewed for leadership positions in Christian ministry before and it's so funny because I've approached and this is many years ago, I mean this is probably I mean it's more than 10 years, I don't know, maybe even more than that and I remember talking about you, know my ability to lead in certain areas in that interview and I remember the interviewer saying to me Sarge, there's no question that you are a leader. The question I have for you is can you follow? And it was like a sledgehammer in the forehead. I was like whoa.
Speaker 4:I need to think about that one and get back to you Exactly which you can't say in an interview.
Speaker 1:So I'm sorry that's a tiny tangent, but really key, really key is acknowledging our identity as followers of Christ.
Speaker 4:Absolutely what is required of us to actually follow. It means we're not in the lead.
Speaker 1:At all and without the Holy Spirit leading us, showing us the path I'm going to grab. Leading us showing us the path. I'm going to grab wow our brother, Richard, every day tells us the journey continues. He does. And I'm here to ask you does it? Once you decide to follow Jesus, do you get your? Can you rest? Can you say I follow Jesus? Can you check the follow box and say that journey, that I'm, there's no decision anymore.
Speaker 4:Well, it's like the old song. It's like the right. It's like the old song. I have decided to follow Jesus.
Speaker 1:I have it right here in my notes.
Speaker 4:You made a decision, you stepped over the line of faith.
Speaker 1:No, turning back.
Speaker 4:No turning back. That's when the journey starts. That's just the beginning of the journey.
Speaker 1:How about that? That's exactly what I was thinking, that in order to be saved, to be rescued, the evangelicals, right, we would have you believe. There's two or three things you got to say, and one of them is that I believe, I believe Jesus died. He's my savior, he died for my sins, right, right, and I'm going to follow him. So you do, you the the. The first step towards that rescue mission of your heart and soul is to say put your hand up. Yeah, I believe I will follow you. Right, that journey's over Now you go to heaven, right, am I right? Yep, okay, check, I'm going to heaven Now.
Speaker 4:It obviously doesn't mean I can take a hard left and start, you know, doing all I will say it does take more it obviously doesn't mean I can take a hard left and start, you know, doing all I will say. It does take more than saying that there's a belief in the heart and a, you know, romans 10, 9, 10. I mean just you know, but I don't want to detract the conversation. But there's a little bit more than that. For listeners that that's might be new too.
Speaker 1:And I well interesting, you say that because I can sit here in front of you and say my son asked me at some time in the last 10 years so, dad, the son of Sam, if he gave his heart to Jesus would he go to heaven.
Speaker 4:And I'm like yes, absolutely, we have a hard time with that.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:We're still talking about it, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean really. It's just one of those moments. So sorry for that tangent, but shout out to Brother Richard Slaughter and thank you for saying the journey continues, because I agree with you completely. I'm coming all the way back around to. The journey really begins there the acknowledgement of God, first, of the fact that he gave his son to save us, the fact that he wants a love relationship with us. Now you're following God. What has got me today is what does this mean? Have I adjusted how I act and talk and walk as a follower?
Speaker 4:Well, yes, there's some things to talk about there that you know, even from this morning's devotional from our Victorious Together group, which I think we should get to. But before we do, the other thing that comes to mind is, you know, playing off of the mindful nature, right, the being mindful of who we are in him and the fact that we have chosen to follow him day in and day out, and what that means, and and uh, prayerfully and mindfully being, um, focused on that, seeing our world through that lens, is living an integrated life, and this is one of the main challenges that I see, particularly men, but all people, many people struggle with. So, yeah, my God life is over here, and then I go off to my job, off to work, or wherever it is that I go, or whatever I do with my day, day and, distracted or not, you know, my God life is over there. That's for church on Sunday, or you know Bible study on Wednesday night or whatever, right, and it's, it's. It's it's separate and distinct and my other parts of my life.
Speaker 4:It really doesn't matter what that looks like, because my God life is over there and that's part of the journey is pulling that. It doesn't work like that God in us, the spirit of God in us, goes with us and he is in us and we are in him and we're called to live a fully integrated life. And that's where I love what you said at the end of that scripture. You know, in John, where he says you know, you're called to be with me at all times, like I'm going and you're called to be with me at all times. And so that's that's the integrated life. It's wherever we go, we are with him and he is with us and we need to be mindful of that so that we are bringing him into every area of our lives.
Speaker 1:John 12, 26 says in the NLT anyone who wants to serve me must follow me, because my servants must be where I am and the Father will honor anyone who serves me. So I want to make sure I get it right.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So what does it mean, my gosh? I mean to do that. It requires discipline. It means doing the hard things. It means you know being patient and suffering. It means you know being joyful in hard times. It means persevering. It means you know you started to go down this path. I thought, and it reminded me of the devotional this morning, of our behaviors, of what do, how we act, and and it's it's yes, like our behaviors matter, our words matter. All of these things, you know, matter, but we also need to be careful. We need to be careful that we don't fall into the trap of moralism um that's right successism, individualism, yeah, the success is in.
Speaker 4:What does a successful life look like when we've arrived? Right as I turn the corner here, you're 65, I'm 50, toes in the warm sand, going, golfing with my son today, traveling, doing all these wonderful things that there's nothing wrong with? God wants us to enjoy His creation, of course, but what are we called to? What are we called to? What are we called to? What does it look like to follow him, especially in the later years of our life? Right, chris, bruno? And the sage? You know, sage book, sagehood, what does sagehood look like? We can't lose sight of that, you know. And then individualism, right, is it just? Is it just me? Is it just me and God? So what does it look like to follow him? Is it just me following him, or am I supposed to be bringing others? Am I supposed to be in community with? Of course I am. It's not just about me and God. It's being in right relationship with others. It's bringing others along. And so, yeah, these are like fine lines that are easy to get blurred.
Speaker 1:You're right, there's definitely 12 episodes In just the last three minutes of you talking, I think there's 12. First of all, to show you how aligned we are, continue to be and how God works in us. At about three minutes before I was going to contact you to do this together, I thought, oh, let me get prepared. And then I thought, no, let me just relax. And then I thought, no, let me just relax. And I looked over and the sage book is right here to my left, as you know. So I just picked it up and I went and opened it and there was wisdom right there in front of me, two minutes, three minutes, before we started talking this morning. So you just referencing the sage book makes me realize that, look, I don't know what the Sage book and shout out to Chris Bruno says specifically about following God, but I know there's something good in there. Because that book we can't recommend the book Sage enough. Anyone who's listening. Shout out to Brother Chris and the Sage.
Speaker 4:And we get nothing for that. This is not some kind of shameless promotion. We just we've been both been deeply impacted by that book, and Chris and his ministry I believe I follow is by acknowledging creation.
Speaker 1:I thought of what's one thing I do and I've you know that I've really tried to focus on that in the last few years is just enjoying the beauty wherever I am. I, I I have suffered from the malady of I need to go to Italy to see something beautiful in Tuscany, or I need to go to Alaska to see a glacier, or I need to go see the whales, as I'm heading, you know, on the ferry up to Maine, and it's all true, it's beautiful. There's also beauty on the way to the store here in town. There's beauty all around me. So one of the ways I know I'm in sync and on the correct path on that journey we're talking about is that I am slowing down enough to acknowledge the beauty of creation on a cloudy day. It's the best way I can explain it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it makes totally sense. It totally makes sense. The, you know, reminds me of practicing the presence, which is practicing the presence of God wherever we are, in every circumstance, in the mundane Right, you know, I think that's that's, that's a huge part of following him, that's part of that mindful nature that, you know, we are with him and in all things, and he is with us in all things. And you know, I think the creation piece is, is, it is a big one, um, you know, having a grateful heart and appreciating the beauty of creation, um, wherever we are is, uh, man, what an incredible.
Speaker 4:I could think of some horrific places that I've been many, many, many years ago, and I remember raising my eyes up, lifting my eyes up above the circumstances, so that all I could see was the mountaintops and the sun setting. I remember it vividly and I was in utter despair, utter despair, vividly, and I was in utter despair, utter despair, and I remember sitting there, just crying out to God, looking up at the mountains and my heart just changing from this, this heart of fear and despair, to one of utter gratitude and joy and peace. And wouldn't you know, shortly after that, and wouldn't you know shortly after that, god freed me from these circumstances that I was seemingly stuck in, and so again, god's in it all. God's in it all. Maybe it's coincidental.
Speaker 1:Look at you. You're moonwalking out of this.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly, but probably not.
Speaker 1:Listen, he's in it all, who knows. But I think there's a lot to be said. But you get it and I'll give you my example. This says to me and I'm not dislocating my shoulder to pat myself on the back, I'm saying my eyes are open. God has opened my eyes. To pat myself on the back, I'm saying my eyes are open. God has opened my eyes. On my way from here to town, 3.1 miles, there's a tree, there's an oak tree, and it is one of those oak trees, sarge. That's perfectly shaped. It's got to be 50, 60, 70 year old tree. It's a super mature tree and it looks like somebody took fine scissors and trimmed it right. Yeah, when it's leafed out and in the fall, when it turns yellow.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It is breathtaking.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I learned to love that tree in the winter because without a leaf on it it's still perfect. And it's got that. You see the branches and just how things are shaped and you're thinking that's such a good life metaphor because underneath those beautiful dying leaves is this tree. Structure is the word that's coming to mind, but I know it's the wrong one, but there it is. The infrastructure of that tree is gorgeous in those crappy February days in New Jersey and it's a little thing, but I love that tree 12 months, 365. And I'd really be sad if that tree died now that I think about it. But I've been here 20 odd years and that tree has been there as long and we watched it grow to full. I mean, it's not getting any taller. Right Tree grows to exact size.
Speaker 1:So, yes, acknowledging creation is one. Let me go to another one that resonates with me and that is the putting God first and recognizing his sovereignty Another way. I know I'm on track and you've heard my prayer life. No one more than you has heard my prayer life out loud. I don't think in my life and you hear me. You know believing in God, trusting in God, keeping God out front and acknowledging I follow the one true God that's so important in my walk.
Speaker 1:Now that I leave, I don't leave any opportunity. The enemy cannot take that ground. I will not relinquish that space, that spot In my head and heart. My God is first, and it's a small. It's one of the steps, but it's a small step that I've taken to inwardly and outwardly address. Am I following him this day? I try to start every day with that and don't get me wrong, I go off and do some hysterically stupid things and say terrible things. But yeah, so following God and acknowledging, recognizing that he is sovereign, that he's, he's got it and I don't need to have it, how's that? How's that feel for you?
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, I mean it's just. You know how's it feel. It feels filled with giant bags of fear. I mean you know it's like. I mean really you know saying living, that are two completely different things. You know, living our lives as though you know we fully believe in, you know, god's sovereignty over our little individual, personal lives and that he is faithful and trustworthy and, with all of it, right With our, our entire lives and those we love, and um all of our circumstances and right, I mean that's tough, tough. So yes, I mean that is, that is the journey, continues my brother. I mean that's tough, tough, it is. So yes, I mean that is the journey, continues my brother. I mean that's, you know, challenging stuff, but yes, that's part of following him for sure.
Speaker 1:And it's. I want to be clear, saying that I don't feel small or smaller. And saying that I don't feel small or smaller, right, realizing what a speck I am in God's creation and my tiny little bit of time that I'm here on the planet to breathe this out, to honor him. Right, I realize very small parts, mark. I don't have any visions of grandeur about my role in the overall plan, but there's a comfort, a settledness in putting him first for me. That just it helps my day, that's all. I hope it helps somebody else's too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Because look, if you just go out and do it and act like it, great I. I find that saying it out loud right. Yeah, Lord, I believe in you, I trust in you over everything man-made. How many times you're hearing me say that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know, it's interesting, as you're talking about that, it's, it's, you know, it makes me think of the fact that it's both moment by moment as well as, like, long-term. Like you know, I'm a planner, I'm a visionary, and so I, I, I plan my life. Right, I'm, I'm, I'm planning. There's, there's, there's a, there's a trap there too, not to always be planning, but to to be present, right To to just be. Uh, you know, living just for today, Uh, but during those seasons of planning, what am I planning? And you know, living just for today, but during those seasons of planning.
Speaker 4:What am I planning? And you know it goes back to the successism and individualism, right? Like am I. Am I planning for my comfort? Yes, most of the time I am. I'm not planning for discomfort, right, and so, like you know, is God first. You know to your point, am I putting God first in my planning, in my financial planning?
Speaker 4:in my retirement planning, in my you know my recreational planning, in my family planning. You know my career planning. All of this Like is that through the lens of God? First, you know, or am I looking at that through what I really want or think I need?
Speaker 1:Ouch that, that's two episodes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a whole life. I mean listen, come on.
Speaker 4:There's you know, I, I look at people I meet very few people, and you probably do too who live that out. You know beautifully and faithfully where it's just. It's just never about them or their knee or their plant. They're like like they are living a radically sold out life, short and long term, for Jesus, yeah. And whenever I see them, I'm always in awe and I'm like, wow, like I want to be more like that. Yes, there's more. There's more dying the self that needs to happen. There's more taking up the cross that needs to happen. There's more. You know. You know longing for irrelevance rather than relevance, right For being less important rather than more important. I mean all of these things in the world all fuzzled up on a silver platter. It says don't you want it, don't you want this. I mean again, whole new episode there. We've talked about that and we'll have one, maybe the next one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Right, we'll talk a little bit about that, but these are all big, big parts of following God.
Speaker 1:Really, what I just heard you say was surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender. There's so much surrendering in this journey, relinquishing all the things in front of us and that part I guess, that part I guess. So, surrendering the things of the world and loving our God and one another, the great commandment, I think these are the key ingredients in the formula. Although I'm not formulaic by my nature, I'm happy to see when something adds up like a recipe, right. Oh, if you put the right ingredients in, you get a good cake. Well, I think we can agree without question that surrendering our hearts and learning to love better make this journey that much more fruitful. We tend to you know how I live that out day to day is a whole nother story and episode. But I think we can agree. We absolutely are in surrender mode. We know what needs to be surrendered. The key is the execution. You said you're a planner and I quickly think, like you, plan, plan, plan. You got to execute at some point.
Speaker 4:And then because with execution comes pass or fail, yeah, and execution when it comes to following God is dropping to our knees. Yeah, and execution when it comes to following God is dropping to our knees. Right Hands open, taking up our cross Surrender that's what it looks like, right.
Speaker 1:It's actually doing less right it's being with him and doing less right, being human beings rather than human doings.
Speaker 4:Ooh, that's a bumper sticker. Absolutely To your point. There's fruit, there's fruit. So we talked about moralism, we talked about behavior and all of that. This isn't about behavior modification, but the fruit of our lives should be evident. It doesn't mean that, um, we, we've got these beautifully, you know, are perfectly beautiful or beautifully perfect lives. You know that. That, just, you know um, you don't. It's, it's messy and painful, but the fruit, the fruit of the spirit, you know um, our spirits and and our words and our, our, our actions, actions modeling and reflecting His love and His grace, become more and more and more a part of the fabric of our lives and are the fruit of following after Him.
Speaker 1:I couldn't agree more, and I think a good closing for me here is. I want to acknowledge I believe you are a good disciple. I believe that I watch you. You're in the word, you're giving time. You're carving out part of your day with your long list of things to do. You're making sure early that you're starting with God. You're in the foxhole with your brothers right, supporting and loving your brothers. You're out front, serving. So and although I don't know specifically, I know you're giving. You're giving in lots of ways in your time, talents and treasures. So so thank you for being a good example for all of us of what a disciple looks like.
Speaker 4:Oh, you as well, man. It's been quite a journey, yep Right, we've sharpened each other, been through many valleys, celebrated many mountaintops and we'll continue because, as Richard says, the journey continues.
Speaker 1:Peace.
Speaker 3:Well, the obvious question of the day who am I following and who are you following? How do we balance our lives, the technology, the relationships, the time For me? I am prayerfully focused on seeking God's help with glorifying him in all that I do. Prayerfully focused on seeking God's help with glorifying Him in all that I do. In fact, I speak those very words each morning when I pray with my family before I leave for work. I fully understand I'm never going to be perfect, but striving toward a deeper sanctification, a sovereign refinement that can only come from God, it's like stepping out of the cold shadows and feeling the warm sun on your face.
Speaker 3:So I ask who do you follow and how is that working out for you? As we drive down the road, on our journey, we have to ask these questions pretty much every day who's behind the wheel, who's in the passenger seat, the back seat and who's in the passenger seat, the backseat and who's in the trunk? Lord, please continue to use this podcast to impact the lives of all who listen. I ask that you would bring hope and healing to each and every one of them, Lord. Meet them right where they are and reveal yourself to them like only you can do In Jesus' name, amen.
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